Poetry Terms

a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance/comparison between things using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• synonym

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• imagery

• simile

• antonym

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

• metaphor

• rhythm

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

the pattern of the stressed and the unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• stanza

• rhythm

• simile

• pattern

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

words or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words

• rhythm

• pattern

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a “paragraph of poetry”

• synonym

• stanza

• antonym

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

the “end rhymes” of poems; the poem follows a specific rhyming of words at the end of each line shown by capital letters

• metaphor

• antonym

• pattern

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5